Covering for roofs and side walls.



F. C. OVERBURY.

COVERING FOR ROFS AND SIDE WALLS.

APPLICATION'FILED SEPT. a, 1914.

1,270,654. PmmeaJun@ 25, 1918.

ing colors.

narran erstens earner carica FREDERICK C. OVERBURY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.,ASSIGNOR TO THE FLINTKOTE COM- PANY, F BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ACORPORATION OF MASSACHUSETTS.

COVERING FOB, .ROOFS AND SIDE WALLS. y

To ail rwhom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK C. OVER- BURY, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and resident of New York, in the county of New York and State ofNew York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Coveringsfor Roofs and Side Walls, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention has relation to Waterproof and weather-proofcoverings for roofs and side walls, and it has for its object to providea covering which may be laid to produce various colored effects. Broadlyspeaking, the invention consists of a covering element, either a sheetor a shingle as the case may be, which is reversible end for end, andwhich is provided upon its face with two coatings of different shades,tinte or colors, sothat when the covering is laid in overlapping rows onthe roof or wall the exposed surfaces will be either of two colors,tints or shades, or else will present alternat- In this way thepurchaser or user will be able to secure any one of several differentcolor effects. Heretofore to secure l,this result it has been necessaryfor the user y to purchase coverings of different colors, and

for the dealers to carry the same in stock.

Referring to the drawings: Figure 1 represents a shingle formed ofprepared vwaterproof weather-proof roofing materials, but preferably itconsists of a sheet of fibrous material such as felt thoroughlyimpregnated with a waterproofing substance, for instance a hydrocarboncomelli pound such as asphaltum, pitch or the like. At least one of thefaces of the sheet is coated or covered with a layer of weatherproofwaterproof material such as pitch or asphaltum. This outer coating orfacing between the top and bottom edges of the covering element (shingleor sheet) is divided into two parallel strlps of different colors, tintsor shades. This may be done in several ways, either by mixingdifferently colored pig Specication of Lettera Patent.

Application led September 3, 1914.

Patented June 25, 1918.

Serial No. 860,012.

ments with the facing compounds, or else by embedding granular materialof different colors in the coating.

On the drawing, a indicates a flexible shingle formed in the manner Ihave described, the :face thereof being provided with two parallelstrips b, b of coating material which are different in color. The lineof division between these strips is preferably midway between andparallel to the top and bottom edges of the shingle. For example, thestrip b may be green, or slate color, and the strip b may be brown orred. In laying the covering, the shingles are arranged in horizontaloverlapping rows, with the shingles of one row overlapping the upperstrips of the next adjacent lower row. Thus by placing the shingles,with all the strips or b, as the case may be, at the lower end thereof,the roof will present a surface of a single color. But by placing onerow of shingles with the strips b exposed, and laying the next higherrow with the strips b exposed, the roof will present a bandedappearance. However, the shingles may be otherwise laid to presentgeometrical dcsigns, `in colors, of great beauty,-this being determinedby the user.

It will be noted further that, when the shingles are laid laterallyspaced as shown in' Fig. 2, the portions of the next lower shingles,which are exposed by the spaces between the shingles in each row beingof dierent or contrasting colors, serve to accentuate the depth of therecesses and to give to the exposed portions of the shingles anappearance of thiclmess.

In Fig. 3, I have shown at c a portion of a sheet covering, this beinglikewise provided vwith parallel facing strips d, d of different colors.Such sheets may be laid as indicated in Fig. 4, so that either of thestrips will be exposed below the overlapping sheet, to produce exposedsurfaces of the same color, or to produce a banded appearance.

Having thus explained the nature of my said invention and described away of constructing and using the same, although without attempting toset forth all the forms in which it may be made or all the modes of itsuse, what I claim is:

1. A covering element, for roofs and side walls, provided on its outerface with a layer of weather-proof waterproof material, said materialbeing formed in two parallel strips of dierent colors between andparallelto the top and bottom edges of the element, whereby said elementmay be laid to expose either of 'said strips.

f2..v A covering element for roofs and side walls, consistingy of ashingle formed of weather-proof waterproof material having y between andparallel with its top and bottom edges two parallel strips of facingmaterial of dierent colors, said strips bein substantially equal inwidth,.whereby when said 1.5 shingles are laid in overlapping horizontalrows the upper strips of each may be covered, and only the lower stripsexposed. p 3. As a new article of manufacture, a roofing element,comprising a waterproof body of fibrous material having a weatherproofcoating of different colors on opposite end portions of one of itssurfaces.

4. As a new article of manufacture, a shin le of flexible materialhaving a coating of di'erent colors on opposite end portions of one ofits surfaces.

5. As a new article of manufacture, a shingle of iexible material havinga coating of `comnfiinuted material on one surface thereof, such coatingbeing of dierent Lamezia olors on opposite end portions of such surace.

6. As an article of'manufacture a shingle of flexible material having acoating of comminuted material over one entire surface thereof, suchcoating being of different colors on the opposite end portions of saidsurface.

7. A ,shingle of flexible material having a coating of comminutedmaterial over one en- 40 tire surface thereof, 4the comminuted materialat one end of said surface covering substantially one half thereof beingof different color from the opposite end or half of said surface. v

V8. As an article of manufacture, a shingle having a coating ofcomminuted material over one entire surface thereof, whereby either endof said shingle may be exposed to the weather and protected by saidmaterial, said coating being of different colors onA the opposite endportions of said surface whereby to obtain roofs of different colorsfrom the same stock of shingles.

lfn testimony whereof I have affixed my signature in presence of twowitnesses.

FREDERICK C. OVERBURY.

Witnesses: t

AGNES HYATT, R. B. DRAPER.

